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Gifted students tend to be voracious readers. It is sometimes difficult for teachers to know und understand how best to differentiate for these students in the regular classroom.
Consider these options:
• Offer a wide range of literature from reviewed district, state and national lists.
• Revisit “classics” that are age-appropriate.
• Consider the emotional maturity of the individual child.
• Offer nonfiction at the child’s true reading level and popular fiction at their age level. (This suggestion comes from gifted education researcher, Judith Wynn Halstead.)
• Read off-level books before or with your child.
Gifted readers prefer books that are more complex in genre, vocabulary, structure, perspective, or theme. Librarian Patricia Austin recommends specific categories that appeal to gifted readers. I have included a partial list of books that gifted middle-schoolers love.
A good resource for lists of books is emailing or contacting the
BookWhisperer: thebookwhisperer@gmail.com for the expanded list.
Middle School Higher Order Comprehension * Bookmarks >>>
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